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By Neill Caldwell neill.caldwell@thestokesnews.com
Photos by Shane Sargent | Sargent Media Productions
Photos by Shane Sargent | Sargent Media Productions
The increase in Stokes County COVID-19 numbers has slowed in recent days, but the total number of positive cases locally have topped the 3,000 mark.
Both the Health Department and the staff at LifeBrite Hospital has been focused on recent days on getting the vaccine to as many people as possible (see related story).
In the latest county Health Department statistics, released Monday, there have been 3,037 lab-confirmed positive cases, an increase of 76 since the last day figures were released on Jan. 21. That’s an average of 19 new cases diagnosed a day, way down from an average of 36 new cases a day a week ago.
By Neill Caldwell neill.caldwell@thestokesnews.com
DANBURY On the highway just north of LifeBrite Hospital there’s a billboard with an image of a person emerging from a tunnel into the light. The message, of course, is that these two new vaccines arriving this week will help bring COVID to an end … eventually.
That can’t happen soon enough for the staff at LifeBrite.
After interviewing Stokes County Health Director Tammy Martin and Director of Nuring Candice Fulcher about the pandemic, last week I spoke to LifeBrite Administrator Pam Tillman about the state of the hospital in the current COVID climate.